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IOM 65 anniversary book
IOM 65 anniversary book
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IOM TIMELINE<br />
1951<br />
POST-WAR<br />
RECONSTRUCTION<br />
1956<br />
HUNGARIAN<br />
UPRISING<br />
Out of the human drama and tragedy of World War<br />
Two and the urgent need to move vulnerable populations,<br />
the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for<br />
the Movement of Migrants from Europe (PICMME) is<br />
born in 1951. It soon becomes the Intergovernmental<br />
Committee for European Migration (ICEM), the Intergovernmental<br />
Committee for Migration (ICM) and eventually<br />
the International Organization for Migration (IOM).<br />
As the Hungarian Uprising against the Government and its Soviet-imposed<br />
policies engulfs the country, hundreds of thousands of Hungarians flee to<br />
neighbouring Austria and Yugoslavia. Within days of this exodus, there is<br />
a rapid response to move vulnerable Hungarians to safety. By 1957 almost<br />
200,000 Hungarians are resettled in Austria and Yugoslavia. The first<br />
100,000 of them are resettled by IOM (then ICEM) in under ten weeks.<br />
12 IOM THROUGH THE YEARS
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